Re: Performance and interface of Encode(3pm) in perl 5.8.0-RC1

2002-07-11 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Guido Flohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Until this morning I didn't know about the new Encode interface. Last >weekend I had started something quite similar which is entirely written >in Perl (no C code). I have chosen a slightly different interface, >however, and maybe you are interested to le

Re: Performance and interface of Encode(3pm) in perl 5.8.0-RC1

2002-07-11 Thread Guido Flohr
Hi, On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:44:47PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > There has been some talk of Encode possibly caching internally > "fast paths" for small (like one eight-bit cset to another) > conversions. But it was decided that we better get it first > working (and out of the door with

Re: Performance and interface of Encode(3pm) in perl 5.8.0-RC1

2002-07-11 Thread Guido Flohr
Hi, On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:15:30PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > For my Tk application of encode the in-place form causes unnecessary > copies. e.g. I need the original and the form encoded into the encoding > required by the font, or I have to copy the input arg to return location. But

input methods, combining characters

2002-07-11 Thread russ graham
hello all! I don't know whether this is the right place to ask -- but you seem like a friendly bunch, so here goes: I would like to enter text using combining characters (as in emacs spanish-prefix mode) using some sort of Readline module. Specifically I'm trying to write a spanish verb

Re: input methods, combining characters

2002-07-11 Thread Ed Batutis
- Original Message - From: "russ graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm hoping there is a good, general solution for multilingual text input, > maybe an extension to Readline::Perl. If you want a good, general solution, there probably is one: the operating system you are using right now. Try

RE: Performance and interface of Encode(3pm) in perl 5.8.0-RC1

2002-07-11 Thread Thurn, Martin (Intranet)
If you're SO-O-O-O concerned about execution speed, then you should NOT be a perl programmer at all. -- - - Kingpin

Re: Performance and interface of Encode(3pm) in perl 5.8.0-RC1

2002-07-11 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Guido Flohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi, > >On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:15:30PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> For my Tk application of encode the in-place form causes unnecessary >> copies. e.g. I need the original and the form encoded into the encoding >> required by the font, or I have t